2006 BMW 550i - Buy it stupid

Just buy it...

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/ws/e...PageName=ADME:L:LCA:MOTORS:1123#ht_788wt_1182

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[Bob Kazamakis]

How could that not sell with that description?

 

[Yaj Yak]

i want it. bad.

if i get a roomate. im all in.

 

[Yaj Yak]

what kind of mpgs you get.

 

[Ear Rak]

what kind of mpgs you get.

somewhere between a sport sedan and a luxury sedan

 

[syP]

nice nice nice car... Would be all over it for a DD if I had my big boy job. Too soon jr.

 

[Lord Tin Foilhat]

I wish i didnt have debt.

Badass dd for sure

 

[Mike K]

Thanks guys. It is a bad ass car which is why I'm always going back and forth on keeping it.

Mileage.... If you drive it like you're in a perpetual run from the police, 16mpg on the dot. Some people say they get 20's mixed driving out of them but that doesn't sound like any fun.

 

[Mike K]

I don't know how they're making any money on this. They gave me exactly what I was selling it for ($17500) and the price of the car I was buying was already negotiated. Do dealers really make this little on cars? It was an intense back and forth negotiation but I didn't think I rode them that hard. This doesn't seem like much markup though.

2006 BMW 550i $19,977 - Woodfield Lexus - Schaumburg, IL 60173 Dealer

 

[Soulonfire11]

They must have got you on the new car you bought, seems whenever they give you good trade, they make it back on the new car. So you figure they gave you 17500, but in actuality they probably could have dropped 1-2k on the new car price.

 

[Mike K]

Yeah perhaps... Either way I made out really well.

 

[boostedguy05]

would sell better with your ebay description

 

[Mike K]

I was really surprised it didn't sell on ebay... Not even any tire kickers. I had one person contact me and offer to buy it but he got all flaky.

The manual transmission really limits your pool of perspective buyers.

 

[sickmint79]

selling my 545i now although i've been lazy and only put it on cars and need to do more with it. on one hand i think the stick is cool and hard to find and people that want it will pay a premium for it but they are also hard to locate, only so many looking for that...

 

[Mike K]

selling my 545i now although i've been lazy and only put it on cars and need to do more with it. on one hand i think the stick is cool and hard to find and people that want it will pay a premium for it but they are also hard to locate, only so many looking for that...

This is exactly it. If you're really patient you'll find someone who needs a stick but you're limiting your buyer to probably 5% of prospective car buyers. At $17,500 I got one tire kicker and one guy who said he wanted it but flaked. I was $5000 below the next cheapest 2006 with a 6 speed and had more options and less miles.

As someone who has a tendency to not keep cars very long, it's probably swayed me from buying another manual transmission car, especially considering how nice the automatics are these days.

 

[willsmysticcobra]

still for sale?

 

[sickmint79]

my 545i is !

 

[Mike K]

Sometimes when a dealer tells you they're losing money on a car they're not lying. The buyer that got flaky on me contacted me the day after I sold the car to explain that he found my message in his spam folder and had just assumed I decided to keep the car (at the time I told him I was on the fence about selling it).

Fast forward to yesterday and he emails me asking about it and whether or not I was really being honest about it being a good car (I was) and asked if I wouldn't mind telling him what the dealer paid me for it because he was trying to haggle with them and they insisted that they were losing money on the deal. So I told him and he just emailed me back...

He paid $14,900 which is a steal and a half. I almost wonder if one of their sales guys roasted the clutch or something and they decided to ditch the car because they went down $5000 in price in the course of 6 weeks. The buyer had very little experience with a manual transmission and it showed when he drove the car with me so I doubt he'd be able to pickup on any clutch issues.

It's kind of cool to see the deal from both sides though. Even if the car ends up needing a clutch... 15k. That is such a great deal for that car.

 

[sickmint79]

selling mine for 18 with winters, should be this weekend.

 

[Mike K]

selling mine for 18 with winters, should be this weekend.

Wish mine sold that easily... Either way though, I got what I wanted for it so I'm not crying in my Wheaties.

 

[sickmint79]

i was pretty lazy i didn't even put up a real ad here or bmw boards, i got few leads though. this is actually the first guy, and after over a month, that is a real lead. one came in after him and is interested if the deal falls through. he showed me some others that were cheaper and lower mileage he was looking at but i was able to pull him up from his original offer, cuz there's only 1 white for sale now in the country and it's mine!!